--- title: He ran and ran, but this time he couldn't catch the fox up; so he re… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He ran and ran, but this time he couldn't catch the fox up; so he returned home and wept bitterly, because he was now all alone. Who acts: cock. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/) / 31 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 31 He ran and ran, but this time he couldn't catch the fox up; so he returned home and wept bitterly, because he was now all alone. **Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** run, not catch up, return, weep, be · **To what, where:** fox This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:20:31 # text = He ran and ran, but this time he couldn't catch the fox up; so he returned home and wept bitterly, because he was now all alone. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 home home ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 alone alone ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | cock | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | cock *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **catch up** | could | cock | the fox | | | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | | 4 | **return** | past | cock | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **weep** | past | cock *not said here* | | | | | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | cock | | | | now | all, alone *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/32/) - ↑ back to [The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/20/)